{"id":573,"date":"2010-08-10T23:44:59","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T22:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.spanger.org\/?p=573"},"modified":"2011-02-05T22:40:40","modified_gmt":"2011-02-05T21:40:40","slug":"reset-root-password-on-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spanger.org\/?p=573","title":{"rendered":"Reset root password on linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What do you need?<br \/>\nLinux live cd (Ubuntu, Fedora,&#8230;)<br \/>\nWhat to do?<br \/>\n1. Boot with linux live cd<br \/>\n2. Start terminal and type;<\/p>\n<pre><code># sudo su\r\n# mount \/dev\/sdaX \/mnt \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 X - root partition\r\n# chroot \/mnt\r\n# passwd (type new root password)\r\n# umount \/mnt<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>3. Reboot the system<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do you need? Linux live cd (Ubuntu, Fedora,&#8230;) What to do? 1. Boot with linux live cd 2. Start terminal and type; # sudo su # mount \/dev\/sdaX \/mnt \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 X &#8211; root partition # chroot \/mnt # passwd [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[40],"class_list":["post-573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux-stuff","tag-reset-root-password"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spanger.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spanger.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spanger.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spanger.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spanger.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=573"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spanger.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":578,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spanger.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions\/578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spanger.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spanger.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spanger.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}